The one thing that could have slowed her down: her nose. "How many managers told me, ‘Get a nose job. You’re not pretty enough’? But I proved them wrong," she says. She also discussed her looks in the THR actress roundtable; watch here.

Still, that doesn't stop her from joking about the Glee movie: "In 3-D, my nose is going to look fabulous."

Michele downplays reports that she's a diva like her character, Rachel Berry.

"People have to remember this is all new for us. We’re all reasonably young, except for Cory [Monteith], who’s old," she says. Monteith is 29; Michele is 24.

“I’ve learned some lessons,” she goes on. “But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I’m not perfect.”